On this day, 22 August 1944, a group of 32 Spanish and four French resistance fighters tackled an entire German column, consisting of 1,300 men in 60 lorries with six tanks and two self-propelled guns, in La Madeleine, France. The Maquis blew up the road and rail bridges and positioned themselves on surrounding hills with machine guns. The battle raged from 3:00pm till noon the following day. Three Maquis were wounded, while 110 Germans were killed, 200 wounded and the rest surrendered. The German commander committed suicide! This is a short history of Spanish anti-Franco exiles in the French resistance: https://ift.tt/2KNTBnx
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